The 4th of July is a few days away, and with it comes a whole host of traditions: Fireworks. Cookouts. Parades. The neighborhood kids who blow up an M-80 at two in the morning, setting you off on a stream of profanities that would embarrass the dad from A Christmas Story.

And of course, lots and lots of TV. Cable networks load up on the marathons when holidays roll around, and this weekend is no exception. The excellent list-centric website Interesting Pile has a complete rundown, but here are some of the highlights:

On Friday, you can watch several of Alfred Hitchcock's best movies on Turner Classic Movies, including Vertigo, Psycho and Rear Window (shown above, the classiest image this blog has ever run). AMC, meanwhile, has all the Jaws movies, although why anyone would want to even acknowledge the sequels to Jaws -- brilliant movie -- is beyond me. Really, it's like graduating from college, but then having to go to a divorce hearing, an arraignment and a funeral all in the same day.

There's the requisite Twilight Zone/Law & Order marathons on Sci Fi and TNT. After that, yeesh. How many of those To Catch a Predator episodes do you expect us to watch, MSNBC?

Meanwhile, there are marathons of Top Chef, Deadliest Catch, and the Harry Potter movies on Saturday, as well as the two other Law & Orders on USA. Basically, if you plan it out carefully enough, you'll get to hear that guy do the "In the criminal justice system..." intro about 80 times.